Word: doggerel
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...front of a television set for up to six hours a day and be insulted. "Counterfeit, stylized brutality that passes for entertainment," he says of the current TV season, adding that the networks' offerings seem to be "devoid of innovation, creativity or diversification," freighted with "drivel," "sanitized doggerel" and "phony, rotten garbage...
...Seventy is wormwood/ Seventy is gall/ But it's better to be 70/ Than not alive at all." It is also better to be 71, which is Poet Phyllis McGinley's real age despite the birthday doggerel she composed for herself last week. "It couldn't matter less," she laughed, "now that it's out." Still a vigorous defender of the glories of housewifery, the 1961 Pulitzer prizewinner had little praise for modern poets. "They stopped using rhyme, and they stopped using meter," she complained. "They're just kind of wandering about, like Erica Jong...
...Bawdy Doggerel. Pattern's private war-years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness...
Patton's ambition may have driven him to subdue much in his nature that was civilized, charming and gentle. He was a military scholar with uncanny intuitive gifts. He tried to be a poet, though the results were usually doggerel and sometimes bawdy: "In war just as in loving,/ You've got to keep on shoving." He could combine callousness-slapping shell-shocked soldiers, for example -with great tenderness for his men. He would sometimes weep and kiss the foreheads of soldiers killed in battle. He was remarkably observant, sometimes with a grisly poetry...
...rabbit has a charming face; Its private life is a disgrace. I really dare not name to you The awful things that rabbits do. With this barking doggerel in view, Richard Adams created Water ship Down. That bestselling odyssey of a colony of migrating conies is very much like the adventures of prep school lads dressed up in fur costumes. Only occasionally do the principals seem to act as if they really had long ears and cottontails-and at those junctures the book ceases to be Water ship Down and becomes, instead, a little 1964 volume entitled The Private Life...